💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: Using ultra-thin Neuropixels probes, #Baylor College researchers found the #hippocampus processes #speech and predicts upcoming #words during #anesthesia. 🧠

Over 70% of #neurons distinguished unexpected #sounds from predictable ones. This challenges the idea that understanding #language requires consciousness. 😪

👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-cells-listen-under-anesthesia

#neuroscience #brain #hearing #science #houston #nature #learning

.@[email protected] will face #Baylor in the regional final tomorrow.

The game starts at noon. Winner advances to the supers. 🤘

#Baylor WR Josh Cameron, who suffered a calf strain at the Combine is on track to be fully healthy by rookie minicamp, source said.

An All-American returner, Cameron recently had a Top 30 visit with the #Falcons and spent time 15+ teams.

LGBTQ+ Christians invited to speak at Baylor University to counter Turning Point USA event

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/baylor-university-gay-christian-event

Alright, this is absolutely first world problems, but holy mother of healthcare, am I furious.

So, I saw a doctor in the #Baylor system (who have purchased most medical practices in the area), a few weeks ago. I paid the doctor at the time of the visit. ($165 after insurance). I knew there was a facility fee, but refused to pay it, because it's egregious.

I got an email this morning from Baylor saying I owed another $300 for facility fees. (I was waiting for the bill, so I could talk to someone about it.)

So I called and said "Hey, this charge is unreasonable, and well outside usual and customary fees."

And their response, as Bob is my witless was, "Our fees are defensible." Which means they had lawyers sitting up figuring out to the last penny what they think they can get away with.

Those lawyers never met me.

#medicalDebt #USHeathcare #profiteering

Y'all. I have been digging into this whole #facilityfee #HospitalFee thing that doctors offices are now charging.

Apparently it's become common practice across all #medical specialties, and here, the Texas Hospital Association, a lobbying firm paid for by Hospital Corporations, has spent millions and millions of dollars making sure we keep paying it. Every state has their own lobbying firm.

The lobby argues that without outpatient fees, hospitals would close, despite somehow being able to operate *before* private equity got involved.

Let's look at #Baylor Scott White. A theoretically non-profit org. They have over 20 executives being paid millions a year in salary and bonus. They have ex-executives they're still paying a million+ a year.

I'm saying I'm pretty sure they could remove facility fees from outpatient offices and make the budget work by trimming some executive fat.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/463131350

For fairness, the THA: https://www.tha.org/issues/facility-fees/

#healthcare #MedicalDebt #US

Toronto Argonauts sign bruiser Qualan Jones, one other

https://3downnation.com/2026/02/17/toronto-argonauts-sign-bruiser-qualan-jones-one-other/

#Argos #Argonauts #Toronto #CFL #Baylor